Carl-Richard

Meditation. I was completely taken off guard because Leo said that everybody sucks at meditation in the beginning ? My notion of awakening was pretty shallow, so I thought it was some other thing. It felt like I was going to disappear forever and never come back, so I jumped up in fear and stopped the meditation.

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I want a test that tests the reliability of your own self-assessments. Strange loop

Rational Ability = 40 / 50 Rational Engagement = 49 / 50 Experiential Ability = 43 / 50 Experiential Engagement = 37 / 50

You don't become less spiritual by writing walls of text ?

@funcool Don't need caffeine for that

That is not very concrete. Here is an example: How does a car move? 1. By burning fuel. 2. By the oxidation of hydrocarbons. 3. By converting the potential chemical energy of gasoline into kinetic energy at the wheels. 4. When gasoline is injected into the cylinder and mixed with air and ignited, it produces an explosion that rapidly expands the gases in the confined cylinder. Thus the four-stroke process is compression, ignition, power, exhaust. The piston is consequently driven downward by the expanding gases in the power stroke which exit the cylinder through an exhaust manifold in the side of the cylinder. The movement of the piston drives the crank shaft down, and this drives another piston up in its cylinder, where it repeats the process of compression, ignition, power and exhaust. The spinning crank shaft turns the heavy flywheel at the rear of the engine. The flywheel is cut with teeth so the starter motor can turn it over and start the engine. The flywheel is connected directly to the gear box which enables the driver to select the ratio of the engine speed to the drive speed. The gear box then connects to the bar of the drive shaft, which spins according to the speed of the selected gears, which in turn is connected to a split differential that allows the driving power to drive the rear axle. The rear wheels, or in the case of front-wheel drive cars, the front wheels, are driven by the rotation of the axle. The turning wheels in turn move the car. Which explanation is detailed enough? If 4, why does that satisfy you? What if I said there exists a 5th explanation?

How detailed of an explanation do you have in mind?

It's ironically enough a very Christian interpretation of karma, equating it with sin (that there is an objective moral code whereby you're judged by an ultimate authority). Karma as conceived by the Hindus is much more subtle than that. It's more akin to a law of nature, like cause and effect, than a mystical scoreboard for good and bad actions. Now, it can still explain why so-called bad things happen to bad people. For instance, repeating an action many times makes it more likely that you'll do it in the future (strengthening of synapses, cognitive schemas etc.), so doing more bad stuff will make you more bad over time, and this influences how you respond to events and how other people respond to you (which also tends to be bad).

What do you think karma is specifically?

My dad is, which means I was born with a 15-30% chance of getting it. But if you don't get it before you turn 20, you'll most likely never get it, so I think I'm in the clear ?

I'm sure you would turn from a man into a piece of pasta dough pretty fast

This was back in the day when I still had thoughts. Now it's so quiet up here

For me, weed always made my thoughts go 500 miles an hour, unless I was doing something like watching a show. That's probably my Bipolar genes kicking in

I felt pretty exhausted the day after my second trip, but I wouldn't call it a comedown. It was probably just a combination of sleep deprivation and feeling a bit spaced out. I remember saying "I feel mentally corrupt". One of my acid buddies sometimes did acid in the middle of the week in high school, and he used to take a couple days off afterwards, but I wouldn't attribute that to the typical comedown effect seen in other types of drugs. The pharmacology of psychedelics is very atypical.

No, because he didn't ask you which cognitive functions you would like on your pizza

I would've been like "ok..."

My mind works best when it's completely sober. Caffeine makes it go faster, but there is a loss of subtlety.

Be more specific.

Religious people score higher on various measures of health than non-religious people. Apparently, going to church correlates with decreased blood pressure. Religion provides community and meaning, which can cover deficit needs (safety, belonging and esteem) and sometimes growth needs (self-actualization and self-transcendence) when the mystical experience is involved. Feeling that your life has direction and that you have answers for your existential questions is certainly conducive to health.

A holon is simultaneously a part and a whole.

I was playing beach volleyball the first week of college and I did the most insane one-handed block/smash ever. It was one of those where you're close to the net and have to jump to block the shot from the opposing team. I had worked up a bit of a flow state, and the execution felt completely automatic, like channeling the hand of God. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was before everybody started cheering wildy.

I just remembered one of my first trips where I sat on a bench with two of friends overseeing a gravel football field and feeling like I was in an episode of Teletubbies. The grass surrounding the field and the blue sky looked like the Windows XP screensaver. All the exaggerated colors and happy feelings, it was a great time

Not much adventures, not much life changing stuff, but heck: Buying weed regularly from a guy who lived right next to a police station, like just over the street, fully in view I've never experienced similar levels of paranoia. Finding out I had accidentally traveled with a small bit of hashish on an international flight. The upside was that I got to smoke on my family vacation in Spain, which was just stressful really. Accidentally doing a front flip on my bike when I was 7 years old because I pulled the front break too hard. I landed on my butt on the asphalt and I somehow didn't get hurt at all. Landing my first 360 on skis in front of my friends without any practice at 13 years old. I landed it, but I fell straight after and my helmet and ski goggles flew off. The feeling of joy, the sound of the helmet, the flash of light, and the sound of my friends cheering, is something I'll never forget. I tried the first air tunnel in Norway (skydivers use it for practice) on the day of the opening, and two celebrities were there (Aksel Hennie, actor who played in The Martian, and Tone Damli Aaberge, singer, smoking hot). It was only me, my brother, my mom and like 4 other people, and we were all eyeing the celebs hard in the other room. I went to the same high school as Alan Walker (same year, different courses though) and Aurora Aksnes (one year above), both are super famous artists today. I took the same music course as Aurora, and I recall on at least one occasion where all the different grades collaborated on some project, which meant that she was singing while me and some other students were backing her with instruments. I talked with the Queen of Norway when she visited our school (I was like 7). I was instructed to play with bricks, and I have no idea what I said. Omg this one is so funny: one of my closest friends from school (who recently got a kid), jumped up on stage when Lars Vaular (some Norwegian rapper) was performing in our school gym, and started dancing with him.